Do you use Memsource? What's your experiece?

Roisin1976

I am only getting used to using Memsource, because www.wordminds use it to translate documents.
I am far more comfortable with Memoq or Trados. Does anyone feel the same?

mar_illescas

Hi Roisin,

I used Memsource (cloud) for a few months while working in-house and I liked it because it was very straight-forward and simple. It has far fewer options and bells and whistles (a.k.a. "things that can go wrong") than Trados, which I'm sure can be seen as an advantage or as a disadvantage. Personally I appreciated that very simplicity, but it's also true that I wasn't all that familiar with other CAT tools back then.

The only thing I disliked about it (although maybe that depends on your settings or the server or...) is that it insisted in suggesting machine translation options and that, of course, if the internet was patchy or gone, that was it...

Kit_germanloc

Have you tried the desktop version of MemSource? I find it provides a much smoother translation experience than the web-based client. As to its features, I agree with Mar, it's like a stripped-down version of one of the big CAT tools, but I find it still does its job remarkably well if all you use it for is translation or proofreading. I especially like its filter options at the top, they can be very useful for ongoing projects which more than one translator is working on. I wouldn't go as far as purchasing a license for MemSource, but it's nice to list it as one of the CAT tools which I am familiar with in my CV, and I don't mind working with it if the client insists.

coveredweb

I used Memsource and I liked. But it's still a cloud-based system so I think privacy isn't a strenght of it. Nowadays I use more OmegaT.